Your 2015 bin calendar - Recycle for Lichfield District

THU 4 DEC
2014 Christmas & New Year Calendar
THU 11 DEC
There are some changes to your bin days this Christmas
and New Year holidays. They are as follows:
THU 18 DEC
THU 25 DEC
✘
✘ Thursday 25 December
Monday 5 January
No collection.
Please put your black bin out
for collection.
Tuesday 30 December
TUE 30 DEC
✘
THU 1 JAN
MON 5 JAN
Your collections will return to
normal, please put your blue bin
and brown bin out for collection.
No collection.
Your 2015 bin calendar
Blue & Brown
Black
Blue & Brown
Black
See above
Thu 8 Jan
Thu 15 Jan
Thu 22 Jan
Thu 29 Jan
FEB ‘15
Thu 5 Feb
Thu 12 Feb
Thu 19 Feb
Thu 26 Feb
MAR ‘15
Thu 5 Mar
Thu 12 Mar
Thu 19 Mar
Thu 26 Mar
APR ‘15
Thu 2 Apr
Thu 9 Apr
Thu 16 Apr
Thu 23 Apr
MAY ‘15
Thu 7 May
Thu 14 May
Thu 21 May
Thu 28 May
JUN ‘15
Thu 4 Jun
Thu 11 Jun
Thu 18 Jun
Thu 25 Jun
JUL ‘15
Thu 2 Jul
Thu 9 Jul
Thu 16 Jul
Thu 23 Jul
Thu 30 Jul
AUG ‘15
Thu 6 Aug
Thu 13 Aug
Thu 20 Aug
Thu 27 Aug
SEP ‘15
Thu 3 Sep
Thu 10 Sep
Thu 17 Sep
Thu 24 Sep
OCT ‘15
Thu 1 Oct
Thu 8 Oct
Thu 15 Oct
Thu 22 Oct
Thu 12 Nov
Thu 19 Nov
Thu 26 Nov
NOV ‘15
Thu 5 Nov
Your bin day is Thursday
Snowy or icy?
See overleaf
for details.
For collections before Thursday 8
January please refer to the Christmas
collections calendar above.
Black
JAN ‘15
THU STH
✓Thursday 8 January
Please put your blue bin out
for collection only, not your
brown bin.
✘ Thursday 1 January
THU 8 JAN
OUR REF:
NEW Your new bin calendar - PLEASE USE FROM DECEMBER 2014
Blue & Brown
Thu 30 Apr
Thu 29 Oct
Please put your bins out by 7am and return
them to your property once emptied.
What goes where?
Help us to recycle as much as possible
by following the instructions on this sheet.
Please put
only clean and
dry recyclables
in your
BLUE BIN
Your blue bin:
ALL glass
ALL plastic
containers
ALL cans
General waste
Pyrex type glass
ALL paper
and card
Tetrapaks
ALL foil
Polystyrene
Nappies
For a full list of what you can put in your blue bin visit
www.recycleforlichfielddistrict.co.uk
Your brown bin:
Weeds, plants
and prunings
Your black bin:
Leaves
Food waste
Grass and
hedge cuttings
Please put food
waste in your
black bin,
including any
vegetable peelings
that have been
in your kitchen.
Or why
not compost
at home?
Compost at home
These items can’t be recycled.
Please put them in your black bin
or take them to the household
recycling centre or tip.
General waste
Food waste
Please only use
your black bin for
items you can’t
recycle and any
food waste.
For advice on what you can compost at home visit
www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/homecompost
Any questions?
Visit www.recycleforlichfielddistrict.co.uk
or call our team on 0345 002 0022
Lichfield District Council and Tamworth Borough Council work together to deliver waste
and recycling services, and make our local communities even greener.
Textiles
Large plastic
Please put
textiles in a tied
carrier bag next
to your blue bin.
Please take large
plastic items to
the household
recycling centre.
Don’t put these in
ANY of your bins:
Soil and turf
Sawdust
Rocks/stones,
building rubble
Large branches
Please do not put these in any of
your bins - please take them to a
household recycling centre or tip.
Snowy and icy weather
During snowy and icy weather visit
www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/snow
to see if there are any changes to
your collections. We'll update the site
every morning at around 7am.
If you don’t have web access please
call 0345 002 0022.